Tag Archives: Myeloma

Blood count up

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Sean Tiernan

I had my appointment on Wednesday and I was expecting to have to have a couple of units of blood on the Thursday; however even though my blood count last Friday was 8.2, it had now gone up to 9.3 which is good news. Dr Lee examined me and listened to my chest again and he s ...

Still in my own bed

Posted on April 3, 2012 by feresaknit

I’ve not managed to wangle a holiday at the Royal yet this week.  There wasn’t a bed available when I rang yesterday morning.  The young lady I spoke to said I should ring that afternoon or this morning.  I said that last time they’d just called me whe ...

Falling down, off and over…

Posted on March 30, 2012 by wendyduffield

I had an incredible holiday in Swedish Lapland. I started a post whilst I was there using my wordpress mobile app but never got round to finishing it.  I cant seem to transfer over what I wrote on my phone app to this site but this is something of what I put:- I was going ...

Help

Posted on March 30, 2012 by feresaknit

To cut a long story short – actually I don’t need to do that since it’s a really short story involving a couple of etsy conversations since Wednesday. I have the opportunity for me and my Myeloma Buddies to maybe appear in a UK crafty magazine, possibly in ...

Sadness and support

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Lorna A

I was going to try and blog weekly, but yesterday we were just too busy. The weather has been glorious recently and we have spent a lot of time in the garden, creating new flower borders in the hope that we can add some colour to an otherwise green area and veggie patch. We ...

Hiccy Burpy to me

Posted on March 26, 2012 by feresaknit

Hiccy Burpy was on a card I got a friend years and years ago – it featured drunken frogs.  It really amused me.  B says it doesn’t take much but I found this particularly amusing. Its been a lovely bright sunny day (photo does not do it justice) B and I went t ...

Massages and Rectums

Posted on March 25, 2012 by feresaknit

It’s a lovely sunny Friday afternoon.  Your husband drops you off at the local oncology centre for your massage.  You know there may be a few problems with lying on your front due to the new peritoneal cathetar in your tummy (hey, it’s a medical term) being ten ...

A Clinic and A Cloche

Posted on March 23, 2012 by feresaknit

Now if you’d said ‘Why not make a cloche?’ to me before yesterday I would have said ‘What do I want with something for plants?  I’m in no condition for gardening’.  The only cloche I was familiar with was the kind that you stuck over ten ...

Short Break

Posted on March 21, 2012 by feresaknit

If I said I was having an impromptu mid week short break where’s the first place that springs to mind?  As much as I’d like to say ‘No, you’re wrong, I’m in Prague’ if you did say the Royal in Liverpool you would indeed be correct. I̵ ...

Hospital Update (A Tribute to Dexy’s Midnight Runners)

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Roobeedoo

Just marking the place.FL had his regular monthly hospital appointment today.

PD A OK

Posted on March 17, 2012 by feresaknit

Well it looks like the peritoneal dialysis may be back on and I’ll be getting the new cathetar installed this coming Wednesday by a doctor I’d not met until last Thursday rather than the doc who put my current neck line and the emergency femoral line in last Nove ...

A little bit of knitting

Posted on March 15, 2012 by feresaknit

I really haven’t done much knitting or crocheting this week but here’s what I have done. Not quite another little aran baby cardigan and yes this one has has a boo boo in the cabling but you know what I did… I’m ashamed to say that I did repeated the ...

Out of Sorts

Posted on March 14, 2012 by feresaknit

I’m so out of sorts today.  Not too sure why although if I don’t perk up I’ll be blaming the Thalidomide. I’d put feeling unenthusiastic about things on and off for the past few weeks down to being anemic but after getting two units of blood on Satur ...

Skin Rash

Posted on March 13, 2012 by wendyduffield

Since my transplant I have been more prone to itchy and sensitive skin, particularly in the early days on my face and neck which would sometimes drive me insane. Also my eyes are red and itchy at times. Eye drops help lubricate and ease the soreness. This is quite common pos ...

Surprise Blood Clinic

Posted on March 11, 2012 by feresaknit

I finally got two units of blood yesterday and felt fantastic before I went to bed last night but I’ve felt quite tired still today but am now feeling somewhat perkier – not just quite perky, perky, PERKY yet. I had a surprise blood clinic appointment on Friday. ...

March 2012 update – plodding along

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Sarah

It’s 3.47 am and can’t sleep which is unusual on a Thursday – normally it’s just Tuesdays and sometimes Weds. Have awful acid reflux. Have just changed from Ranitidine – I discovered my Adcal (Calcium Carbonateand D3) reduces its effectiveness. ...

Sleepy Zombies

Posted on February 29, 2012 by feresaknit

=]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] That’s Bud’s contribution to today’s post.  He was lying at the side of me and put his head on my lap completely ignoring the fact that it was already o ...

Interesting Ears

Posted on February 24, 2012 by feresaknit

Buddy went to see the Doggy Dermatologist yesterday for a follow up appointment with it being 12 weeks after he’d started getting his desensitising injections. As usual he didn’t disappoint and was the noisiest and most active dog there – ‘TalkingR ...

Hospital Update

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Roobeedoo

Hi there Myeloma fans!This is your regular Haematology update post.The news is:

‘There’s nothing like a day out’

Posted on February 15, 2012 by feresaknit

B was heard to say as we got back in the car today after going to Liverpool for our first kidney clinic appointment.  ’Yes’ I replied ‘and that was nothing like a day out.’ I’d inadvertently cramped our dining possibilities by telling Auntie El ...